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This is a Halloween Howl Story from Dreamspinner Press. Click on the gargoyle to get the story!
This was a limited edition that is no longer available at Dreamspinner Press. Now available direct from Goodreads, and on Smashwords
This was a limited edition that is no longer available at Dreamspinner Press. Now available direct from Goodreads, and on Smashwords
10 pages, ebook
First published November 4, 2011
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December 28, 2011
This wasn't anything like I was expecting. It's a cute story because the characters are essentially role playing but it was half sex and half foreplay. I was confused as to what was happening at first and a bit disappointed that this really has nothing to do with mates, in the shifter sense.
October 22, 2011
Fun, sexy story for Halloween!
July 2, 2015
Sweet, extremely short scene between Logan and Richard. Logan acting up his Halloween costume - a wolf. It was sweet and sexy and even though it was short and had a sex scene in it, I could actually feel the connection / real relationship between the too.
This novella can be downloaded through its book's GoodReads page.
Just this morning someone shared this uber sweet video on one of my Facebook group. After reading this one, I could see these two in it (though in the video there is a "real" wolf ;))
This novella can be downloaded through its book's GoodReads page.
Just this morning someone shared this uber sweet video on one of my Facebook group. After reading this one, I could see these two in it (though in the video there is a "real" wolf ;))
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October 31, 2012A cute little scene, but not really a full story. It had no depth, but did have a certain level of fun that made it worth reading.
October 10, 2011
Short about two guys having some fun being mates on Halloween.
December 12, 2011
2.5 stars.
This was a cute short about some role-playing. Two men getting ready for halloween play at being frisky wolves. Not much else to the story.
This was a cute short about some role-playing. Two men getting ready for halloween play at being frisky wolves. Not much else to the story.
January 24, 2013
A fun little short about a couple getting ready for a Halloween party but getting sidetracked when one starts role playing.
November 2, 2015
This one was cute about Logan and Richard. Logan is role playing as a wolf as it leads to sex and getting ready for Halloween just sweet would've love more.
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August 22, 2023So, you know how in fandom there are PWP's (formerly lemons; help me I'm old)? Stories that take familiar characters, shove them together, make them do naughty things, and then are over roughly ten seconds after the mutual climax? That's what this is, except the characters aren't familiar.
They're just two random guys. Apparently, one (or maybe both?) of them will be attending an upcoming Halloween party as a (were?)wolf, and this sparks a little bit of roleplay between them of the mostly unkinky variety. I think they were supposed to be playing at a consensual nonconsent scene, since one of them pretends to beg not to be hurt (while the other tries not to laugh, iirc), but this is honestly super tame and just involves a bit of rough shagging against a wall with a small amount of biting and play-growling. In fact, the 'smut' is incredibly tame with no heat to it. Just some descriptions of thrusting, more or less, and a lot of focus on how good it felt or whatever.
In case you didn't notice: I'm already fuzzy on the details and I started writing this review immediately after I was finished. The story's so forgettable I legitimately can't recall which pieces were disclosed and which were blanks I filled in to make it make more sense. Maybe if the characters were actually familiar, there'd be some thread to tie this together and make it worthwhile. As a random scene in a romance novel, for example, I think it'd probably be alright.
As is, it's just meh, but at ten pages I hardly feel like it's long enough to rate. I borderline feel guilty it's going to count toward my 2021 reading challenge; if I hadn't already completed the goal, I'd probably refuse to add this one to the appropriate shelf.
Oh, one more thing! The download here on Goodreads is abysmal. It's a .pdf in a weird, small font that gets fuzzy when zoomed. Trying to convert it to an epub or mobi for accessibility purposes through Calibre just made a jumbled mess, thanks to the paperback-like structure with the author's name and book title atop every page. (C'mon. It's a ten-page free fiction. You don't need to do that!) So if you're like me and get eyestrain easily but are too lazy to deconstruct a converted ebook and fix it for merely ten pages of writing, you might want to skip this one.
They're just two random guys. Apparently, one (or maybe both?) of them will be attending an upcoming Halloween party as a (were?)wolf, and this sparks a little bit of roleplay between them of the mostly unkinky variety. I think they were supposed to be playing at a consensual nonconsent scene, since one of them pretends to beg not to be hurt (while the other tries not to laugh, iirc), but this is honestly super tame and just involves a bit of rough shagging against a wall with a small amount of biting and play-growling. In fact, the 'smut' is incredibly tame with no heat to it. Just some descriptions of thrusting, more or less, and a lot of focus on how good it felt or whatever.
In case you didn't notice: I'm already fuzzy on the details and I started writing this review immediately after I was finished. The story's so forgettable I legitimately can't recall which pieces were disclosed and which were blanks I filled in to make it make more sense. Maybe if the characters were actually familiar, there'd be some thread to tie this together and make it worthwhile. As a random scene in a romance novel, for example, I think it'd probably be alright.
As is, it's just meh, but at ten pages I hardly feel like it's long enough to rate. I borderline feel guilty it's going to count toward my 2021 reading challenge; if I hadn't already completed the goal, I'd probably refuse to add this one to the appropriate shelf.
Oh, one more thing! The download here on Goodreads is abysmal. It's a .pdf in a weird, small font that gets fuzzy when zoomed. Trying to convert it to an epub or mobi for accessibility purposes through Calibre just made a jumbled mess, thanks to the paperback-like structure with the author's name and book title atop every page. (C'mon. It's a ten-page free fiction. You don't need to do that!) So if you're like me and get eyestrain easily but are too lazy to deconstruct a converted ebook and fix it for merely ten pages of writing, you might want to skip this one.
October 27, 2014
More of a shifter role play than a Halloween story.
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